[Hiring] Admissions & Selection Manager @City Teaching Alliance

Role Description

The Admissions and Selection Manager is responsible for managing the initial application reviews for the City Teaching Alliance Admissions process. This includes:

• Reviewing a significant number of applications to the City Teaching Alliance program.
• Managing part-time staff members who support the application review process.
• Supporting the phone interview process and managing communication with City Teaching Alliance applicants.
• Partnering with the Recruitment team to support City Teaching Alliance applicants.
• Participating in the Urban Teachers resident selection process.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for our mission, vision, and values, and is excited to help ensure that the application and phone interview processes exemplify our mission and our deep commitment to anti-racist selection processes. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have had experience working in high volume Admissions and/or Recruitment processes, and enjoys “behind the scenes” work (with some candidate-facing communications).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with customer service or candidate communication.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
• Results-oriented and motivated by clear goals.
• High degree of attention to detail and operational excellence.
• Self-directed and self-starter who is comfortable operating in grey space and maintains a high degree of personal responsibility.
• Ability to work remotely and as part of a remote team while managing close working relationships with regional site teams.
• Willingness and ability to attend selection events some evenings and weekends.
• Experience working with Salesforce and Box document storage platform preferred.
• Experience completing interviews or application reviews.

Requirements

• Manage the Application Review process and ensure that every application to CTA is reviewed quickly and equitably.
• Review candidate eligibility to ensure candidates can join the CTA program.
• Serve as the point person for candidates who have questions about their application or who are missing key information on their application.
• Lead initial training and ongoing professional development for part-time application reviewers.
• Develop application reviewer training materials, support resources, and manage part-time application reviewer communication.
• Complete candidate application reviews and interviews as part of the selection process.

Candidate Communication

• Manage the applicant facing inbox and other applicant communication channels.
• Update and maintain admissions information on all Admissions platforms.
• Partner with the Recruitment team to share information about the application process and answer specific candidate questions.
• Support strategies to increase the number of candidates who submit their application and accept an offer with CTA, including candidate reminders and surveys.